5 hours ago, sd_flyer said:

Also if  your opinion  doesn’t align with other problem is not with a forum but with your ego 😉 

Luckily AVSIM doesn’t have downvotes like reddit. 

Just now, Bert Pieke said:

Has anyone been able to activate the speedbrakes?

The button on the yoke is not visible, and there is no "Speedbrake" setting that I can find in MSFS Controls.

Yes, the button on the left yoke is hard to find.  I already had spoilers set for my controller.  They work great.

Bert.  Look for spoilers.

28 minutes ago, 109Sqn said:

search for aircraft.cfg in the Steam folder

Not on Steam.  MS Store.

2 minutes ago, fppilot said:

Not on Steam.  MS Store.

So the files are hidden in a Steam install?

28 minutes ago, DJJose said:

Nice review Ray as usual. The pad & animations are some of the features that caught my attention.

I noticed at between 19:00 and 19:30 in that the ALT function was not enunciated but the altitude was 4,000 and the VS speed was centered.  Then next visual pass over the AP showed the ALT enunciated?  In between he did nothing. What the heck.  I did not confirm process for altitude capture during my flight.

Bert, I failed to look at the yoke for the "spoiler alert" (LOL), so missed it as well.  Perhaps why I floated and bounced...

57 minutes ago, buffybill said:

Hi all.
Long time lurker here. Always been fascinated with sims, bought most of them over the years but  never really took them serious. Yip I was that guy that put most of the settings to "arcade mode". After many years mucking about I have finally decided it is time to learn to fly "properly", as much as that is possible within MSFS 2020. I have zero interest for now in flying airliners and plan on sticking to GA craft, with my plan being the C152->C172 and now this beautiful looking M20R. Yes I know all about Carenado's rep in previous sims, but after watching this inflight review of the plane, it was enough to convince me on my first MSFS addon purchase. I know it's no A2A study model, but for someone like me aka-noob, it looks about perfect to get me started. Perhaps people like me are the target market and I am posting this just to let you guys know that surely this is no bad thing? More users, bigger market, win win all round.
Anyway here is the vid that convinced me to buy 🙂
 

 

Thanks for the ride. Who are you? I'm so close to buying it.

BTW, the EGT is there for a reason. I wish you would have loaded an approach just to see if the AP held heading and altitude.

Excellent job!

8 minutes ago, fppilot said:

I noticed at between 19:00 and 19:30 in that the ALT function was not enunciated but the altitude was 4,000 and the VS speed was centered.  Then next visual pass over the AP showed the ALT enunciated?  In between he did nothing. What the heck.  I did not confirm process for altitude capture during my flight.

Bert, I failed to look at the yoke for the "spoiler alert" (LOL), so missed it as well.  Perhaps why I floated and bounced...

The pilot used the Altitude Selector and dialed in 4,000 ft about 30 seconds before.  He was only about 100 feet off so the ALT SEL just reported being at 4,000 and the ALT light came on. Perfectly normal.

14 minutes ago, 109Sqn said:

So the files are hidden in a Steam install?

What is interesting is that in poking around in the folders I found model documentation. But the installation process did not create a set of links, nor did it place any shortcuts on the desktop.  There is nothing in the Windows Start Menu.....  Seriously unbelievable.  Who is to blame? Carenado or the Microsoft Store? (or Steam).  Somewhere there are those asleep at the switch.

Edited September 19, 20205 yr by fppilot

24 minutes ago, Bert Pieke said:

Has anyone been able to activate the speedbrakes?

The button on the yoke is not visible, and there is no "Speedbrake" setting that I can find in MSFS Controls.

Yes it works with default spoilers axis in my case

1 minute ago, fppilot said:

What is interesting is that in poking around in the folders I found model documentation. But the installation process did not create a set of links, not did it place any shortcuts on the desktop.  There is nothing in the Windows Start Menu.....  Seriously unbelievable.  Who is to blame? Carenado or the Microsoft Store? (or Steam).  Somewhere there are those asleep at the switch.

It certainly doesn't help if devs aren't following identical conventions to the base install. Like you say, who's (ir)responsible?

5 minutes ago, raymar said:

The pilot used the Altitude Selector and dialed in 4,000 ft about 30 seconds before.  He was only about 100 feet off so the ALT SEL just reported being at 4,000 and the ALT light came on. Perfectly normal.

I missed it.  I could not reliably determine how to set a desired altitude and capture it.  Did so once but I tried three or four methods and have not a clue why that one attempt was successful.  Should have taken notes or recorded my own video.  Have not used that type of AP/ALT combo in years.  Not a gripe.  I enjoy the instrument configuration of this offering.

Edited September 19, 20205 yr by fppilot

2 hours ago, DJJose said:

How many Carenado/Alabeo add-ons have you purchased?

Plenty for FSX, P3D and then even for XP11 but only those that had Simcoders plugin.They did stepped up their game at some point when they had Thundra as part of the team, but not anymore

Well maybe sorry to say but I have had a great couple of flights in it so far around O28 and then up to KFOT and despite the rough edges with trim I LIKE IT.  But the avionics did not flake out on me and I did not have the AP set correctly to use GPS so didn't experience the drunken 20-degree swaying.  But I do like how effective the spoiler/speedbrakes are and how they pop up out of the wing the same way they did on the RealAir Lancair.  It's a sin to mention the two planes in the same breath I know but this is a nice little speedy hotrod along that same sense, at least for now.  And my taste is biased since I have always had a love affair with how Mooneys look. So it will most certainly do.

I am a Steam user but no joy on finding the aircraft.cfg file - it certainly isn't in F:\AppData\{username}\Roaming\Microsoft Flight Simulator\Packages\Official\Steam\carenado-aircraft-m20r-ovation\SimObjects\Airplanes\Carenado_M20R_Ovation as expected, although most of the rest of the expected files are there.

 

33 minutes ago, Bert Pieke said:

Has anyone been able to activate the speedbrakes?

The button on the yoke is not visible, and there is no "Speedbrake" setting that I can find in MSFS Controls.

Bert, you likely have found it by now.  But if not it is around on the left side of the left pod of the yoke and barely, if barely visible in the standard camera views. Look left of the CWS button.  And if there is a button the c-pilot's yoke it must be around on the right side of it.